the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Mark 9:16
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He asked them, “What are you arguing with them about?”
And he asked the Scribes, What question ye with them?
And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them?
And he asked them, "What are you arguing about with them?"
And He asked them, "What are you disputing with them?"
He asked them, "What are you discussing with them?"
And He asked them, "What are you arguing with them?"
"What are you disputing with them?" He asked.
Jesus asked, "What are you arguing about?"
He asked them, "What's the discussion about?"
And he asked them, What do ye question with them about?
Jesus asked, "What are you arguing about with the teachers of the law?"
Then hee asked the Scribes, What dispute you among your selues?
And he asked the scribes, What do you debate with them?
Jesus asked his disciples, "What are you arguing with them about?"
And he asked them, "What are you arguing about with them?"
And He questioned the scribes, What are you arguing with them?
And he asked them, What question ye with them?
And he said, What are you questioning them about?
He asked the Sofrim, "What are you asking them?"
He asked the scribes,them">[fn] "What are you arguing about with them?"
And he inquired of the Sophree, What dispute you with them ?
And he asked the Scribes: What were ye disputing with them?
And he asked the scribes, what dispute ye with them?
And he asked them, What question ye with them?
He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?"
And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them? And one of the multitude answering said,
"What is the subject you are discussing?" He asked them.
And he axide hem, What disputen ye among you?
And he asked them, What do you question with them?
And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them?
He asked them, "What are you arguing about with them?"
And He asked the scribes, "What are you discussing with them?"
"What is all this arguing about?" Jesus asked.
Jesus asked the teachers of the Law, "What are you arguing about with them?"
He asked them, "What are you arguing about with them?"
And he questioned them - What are ye discussing with them?
(9-15) And he asked them: What do you question about among you?
And he asked them, "What are you discussing with them?"
And he sayde vnto the Scribes: what dispute ye with them?
And he questioned the scribes, `What dispute ye with them?'
And he axed the scrybes: What dispute ye with them?
then he ask'd the Scribes, what were you debating with them?
"What's all the bickerin' about?" Jesus asked while he swung off his horse.
And He asked them, "What are you discussing with them?"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
What: Mark 8:11, Luke 5:30-32
with them: or, among yourselves
Cross-References
"Everything that moves, everything that is alive, is yours for food. Earlier I gave you the green plants, but now I give you everything for food.
But you must not eat meat that still has blood in it, because blood gives life.
Then God said to Noah and his sons,
"Now I am making my agreement with you and your people who will live after you,
and with every living thing that is with you—the birds, the tame and the wild animals, and with everything that came out of the boat with you—with every living thing on earth.
I make this agreement with you: I will never again destroy all living things by a flood. A flood will never again destroy the earth."
When he drank wine made from his grapes, he became drunk and lay naked in his tent.
Ham, the father of Canaan, looked at his naked father and told his brothers outside.
And I will make an agreement between me and you and all your descendants from now on: I will be your God and the God of all your descendants.
Circumcise every baby boy whether he is born in your family or bought as a slave. Your bodies will be marked to show that you are part of my agreement that lasts forever.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he asked the Scribes,.... The Vulgate Latin renders it, "he asked them"; and the Ethiopic version, he said unto them; meaning either that he asked the disciples when he came to them, or else the people that ran to salute him; but the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions read, "the Scribes"; seeing them about his disciples, in close debate with them, and running hard upon them, he asks them,
what question ye with them? what is it ye seek and require of them? what is your dispute with them? what is your debate about? The Vulgate Latin version reads, "what question ye among you?" among themselves, and one another; and so Beza's most ancient copy.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 17:14-21.
Mark 9:14
Questioning with them - Debating with the disciples, and attempting to confound them. This he saw as he came down from the mount. In his absence they had taken occasion to attempt to perplex and confound his followers.
Mark 9:15
Were greatly amazed - Were astonished and surprised at his sudden appearance among them.
Saluted him - Received him with the customary marks of affection and respect. It is probable that this was not by any “formal” manner of salutation, but by the “rush” of the multitude, and by hailing him as the Messiah.
Mark 9:16
What question ye? - What is the subject of your inquiry or debate with the disciples?
Mark 9:17
A dumb spirit - A spirit which deprived his son of the power of speaking.
Mark 9:18
And wheresoever - In whatever place - at home or abroad, alone or in public.
He teareth him - He rends, distracts, or throws him into convulsions.
He foameth - At the mouth, like a mad animal. Among us these would all be considered as marks of violent derangement or madness.
And pineth away - Becomes thin, haggard, and emaciated. This was the effect of the violence of his struggles, and perhaps of the want of food.
Mark 9:22
If thou canst do any thing - I have brought him to the disciples, and they could not help him. If thou canst do anything, have compassion.
Mark 9:23
If thou canst believe - This was an answer to the request, and there was a reference in the answer to the “doubt” in the man’s mind about the power of Jesus. “I” can help him. If thou” canst believe,” it shall be done. Jesus here demanded “faith” or confidence in his power of healing. His design here is to show the man that the difficulty in the case was not in the want of “power” on his part, but in the want of “faith” in the man; in other words, to rebuke him for having “doubted” at all whether he “could” heal him. So he demands faith of every sinner that comes to him, and none that come without “confidence” in him can obtain the blessing.
All things are possible to him that believeth - All things can be effected or accomplished - to wit, by God - in favor of him that believes, and if thou canst believe, this will be done. God will do nothing in our favor without faith. It is right that we should have confidence in him; and if we “have” confidence, it is easy for him to help us, and he willingly does it. In our weakness, then, we should go to God our Saviour; and though we have no strength, yet “he” can aid us, and he will make all things easy for us.
Mark 9:24
Said with tears - The man felt the implied rebuke in the Saviour’s language; and feeling grieved that he should be thought to be destitute of faith, and feeling deeply for the welfare of his afflicted son, he wept. Nothing can be more touching or natural than this. An anxious father, distressed at the condition of his son, having applied to the disciples in vain, now coming to the Saviour; and not having full confidence that he had the proper qualification to be aided, he wept. Any man would have wept in his condition, nor would the Saviour turn the weeping suppliant away.
I believe - I have faith. I do put confidence in thee, though I know that my faith is not as strong as it should be.
Lord - This word here signifies merely “master,” or “sir,” as it does often in the New Testament. We have no evidence that he had any knowledge of the divine nature of the Saviour, and he applied the word, probably, as he would have done to any other teacher or worker of miracles.
Help thou mine unbelief - Supply thou the defects of my faith. Give me strength and grace to put “entire” confidence in thee. Everyone who comes to the Saviour for help has need of offering this prayer. In our unbelief and our doubts we need his aid, nor shall we ever put sufficient reliance on him without his gracious help.
